Chavez' return puts run to Canada's unctuous Minister of Foreign Affairs

The word from John Baird's office today is that he'll find another mutually convenient time to lecture the Venezuelans on matters of human rights.

As it happened, the Canadians figured any time Chavez was out of the country would have been a good time. That figuring went out the window with the unexpected return of Chavez.

Baird has been on a grand tour of central and south America lecturing all and sundry about human rights. This from the country wherein the native population is abused and neglected on a scale unparalleled in the western hemisphere.

But that's the Canadian way; preaching from the rooftops about your neighbor's moral flaws while steadfastly ignoring the mote in your own eye.